Minute in Different Languages
Discover 'Minute' in 134 Languages: Dive into Translations, Hear Pronunciations, and Uncover Cultural Insights.
Minute
Afrikaans minuut | ||
Albanian minutë | ||
Amharic ደቂቃ | ||
Arabic دقيقة | ||
Armenian րոպե | ||
Assamese মিনিট | ||
Aymara k'atha | ||
Azerbaijani dəqiqə | ||
Bambara miniti | ||
Basque minutua | ||
Belarusian хвіліна | ||
Bengali মিনিট | ||
Bhojpuri मिनट | ||
Bosnian minutu | ||
Bulgarian минута | ||
Catalan minut | ||
Cebuano minuto | ||
Chinese (Simplified) 分钟 | ||
Chinese (Traditional) 分鐘 | ||
Corsican minutu | ||
Croatian minuta | ||
Czech minuta | ||
Danish minut | ||
Dhivehi މިނެޓް | ||
Dogri मिंट्ट | ||
Dutch minuut | ||
English minute | ||
Esperanto minuto | ||
Estonian minut | ||
Ewe aɖabaƒoƒo | ||
Filipino (Tagalog) minuto | ||
Finnish minuutti | ||
French minute | ||
Frisian minút | ||
Galician minuto | ||
Georgian წუთი | ||
German minute | ||
Greek λεπτό | ||
Guarani aravo'i | ||
Gujarati મિનિટ | ||
Haitian Creole minit | ||
Hausa minti | ||
Hawaiian minuke | ||
Hebrew דַקָה | ||
Hindi मिनट | ||
Hmong feeb | ||
Hungarian perc | ||
Icelandic mínútu | ||
Igbo nkeji | ||
Ilocano minuto | ||
Indonesian menit | ||
Irish nóiméad | ||
Italian minuto | ||
Japanese 分 | ||
Javanese menit | ||
Kannada ನಿಮಿಷ | ||
Kazakh минут | ||
Khmer នាទី | ||
Kinyarwanda umunota | ||
Konkani मिनीट | ||
Korean 분 | ||
Krio minit | ||
Kurdish deqqe | ||
Kurdish (Sorani) خولەک | ||
Kyrgyz мүнөт | ||
Lao ນາທີ | ||
Latin minute | ||
Latvian minūti | ||
Lingala miniti | ||
Lithuanian minutė | ||
Luganda eddakiika | ||
Luxembourgish minutt | ||
Macedonian минута | ||
Maithili मिनट | ||
Malagasy minitra | ||
Malay minit | ||
Malayalam മിനിറ്റ് | ||
Maltese minuta | ||
Maori meneti | ||
Marathi मिनिट | ||
Meiteilon (Manipuri) ꯌꯥꯝꯅ ꯀꯨꯞꯄ | ||
Mizo thil tereuh te | ||
Mongolian минут | ||
Myanmar (Burmese) မိနစ် | ||
Nepali मिनेट | ||
Norwegian minutt | ||
Nyanja (Chichewa) miniti | ||
Odia (Oriya) ମିନିଟ୍ | ||
Oromo daqiiqaa | ||
Pashto دقیقه | ||
Persian دقیقه | ||
Polish minuta | ||
Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) minuto | ||
Punjabi ਮਿੰਟ | ||
Quechua minuto | ||
Romanian minut | ||
Russian минута | ||
Samoan minute | ||
Sanskrit क्षणं | ||
Scots Gaelic mionaid | ||
Sepedi motsotso | ||
Serbian минуту | ||
Sesotho motsotso | ||
Shona mineti | ||
Sindhi منٽ | ||
Sinhala (Sinhalese) විනාඩිය | ||
Slovak minútu | ||
Slovenian minuta | ||
Somali daqiiqad | ||
Spanish minuto | ||
Sundanese menit | ||
Swahili dakika | ||
Swedish minut | ||
Tagalog (Filipino) minuto | ||
Tajik дақиқа | ||
Tamil நிமிடம் | ||
Tatar минут | ||
Telugu నిమిషం | ||
Thai นาที | ||
Tigrinya ደቒቓ | ||
Tsonga minete | ||
Turkish dakika | ||
Turkmen minut | ||
Twi (Akan) sima | ||
Ukrainian хвилини | ||
Urdu منٹ | ||
Uyghur مىنۇت | ||
Uzbek daqiqa | ||
Vietnamese phút | ||
Welsh munud | ||
Xhosa mzuzu | ||
Yiddish מינוט | ||
Yoruba iseju | ||
Zulu umzuzu |
Etymology & Notes
| Language | Etymology / Notes |
|---|---|
| Afrikaans | Afrikaans "minuut" derives from Dutch "minuut" meaning "small", alluding to the short duration of time. |
| Albanian | In Albanian, "minutë" also means "small" or "tiny" (derived from Latin "minutus"). |
| Amharic | The word "ደቂቃ" can also refer to a "second". |
| Arabic | The word |
| Armenian | The word "րոպե" is derived from the Greek word "λεπτόν" meaning "small part" and also refers to the sixty subdivisions of an hour. |
| Azerbaijani | The word "dəqiqə" also means "exact" or "precise" in Azerbaijani. |
| Basque | Also refers to a unit of liquid measure and to a specific type of bread in Basque. |
| Belarusian | The name хвіліна comes from the Latin words «minuta pars horae», which means «the smallest part of an hour». |
| Bengali | The word 'মিনিট' derives from the Latin word 'minutus' meaning 'small' or 'very small' |
| Bosnian | Bosnian "minutu" can also mean "very little" and derives from the Italian word "minuto" with the same meaning. |
| Bulgarian | The Bulgarian word "минута" is derived from the Proto-Slavic root *min-, meaning "to pass". It has the same root as the English word "minute", meaning "a moment". However, in Bulgarian, "минута" has an additional meaning of "a unit of time equal to 60 seconds". |
| Catalan | The Catalan word "minut" also means "moment". |
| Cebuano | In Cebuano, "minuto" can also refer to a small insect or a type of plant. |
| Chinese (Simplified) | 古代“分钟”指十分之一刻，近代用来计量时间，指一小时的六十分之一。 |
| Chinese (Traditional) | 分鐘是時間單位，也指會客時短暫停留、文件速記及記錄會議時所寫的備忘錄。 |
| Corsican | The Corsican word "minutu" can also refer to a "small child" or a "small piece of something" in addition to meaning "minute". |
| Croatian | The Croatian word "minuta" also means a draft version of a document. |
| Czech | The Czech word "minuta" also has the meaning of "sketch" or "draft". |
| Danish | Danish "minut" is related to "mindre", meaning "smaller", as it originally meant "a smaller hour". |
| Dutch | The Dutch word "minuut" comes from the Latin word "minutum", which means "small" or "tiny". |
| Esperanto | The Esperanto word "minuto" comes from the Latin word "minutus", meaning "small" or "tiny", and can also refer to a small piece of time or a brief musical note. |
| Estonian | The word "minut" in Estonian can also mean "moment" or "instant". |
| Finnish | Minuutti is also a small coin, which in colloquial language is called penn, and in the 16th century meant a weight of a certain amount of silver. |
| French | The word "minute" in French, meaning "small" or "tiny," evolved from the Latin word "minutus," meaning "threatened" or "diminished." |
| Frisian | In Frisian, "minút" also means "sandbank". |
| Galician | In Galician, "minuto" has cognate meanings of "small" or "little", and is also used to describe a detail or aspect of something. |
| Georgian | The Georgian word "წუთი" also means "a very short period of time" and comes from the Ancient Greek word "στιγμή", which means "a point" or "an instant". |
| German | The German word "Minute" can also refer to a small insect or a tiny particle. |
| Greek | "λεπτό" (leptó) is derived from the root "λεπ" (lep), meaning 'small' or 'thin'. |
| Gujarati | The Gujarati word 'મિનિટ' is derived from the English word 'minute', which originally meant 'a very small portion of time'. |
| Haitian Creole | In Haitian Creole, "minit" can also refer to a note or memorandum. |
| Hausa | In Hausa "minti" also means "to vanish" or "to be finished off." |
| Hawaiian | The Hawaiian word "minuke" is derived from the English word "minute" and originally referred to the 60th part of an hour, but later evolved to also mean a small or brief amount of time. |
| Hebrew | The Hebrew word דַקָה (pronounced "dakah") can also mean "thin" or "fine". |
| Hindi | From the Latin word "minutus" meaning "small" or "very small". |
| Hmong | The word 'feeb' in Hmong can also mean 'grain' or 'particle', and is related to the word 'feem', which means 'dust' or 'powder'. |
| Hungarian | In Hungarian, the word "perc" can also refer to a unit of time equal to one thousandth of a second. |
| Icelandic | The word "mínútu" in Icelandic can also mean "small" or "tiny". |
| Igbo | Igbo word "Nkeji" derives from "na nke ji" (meaning "that with which something is used") due to its smallness and the ability to use it to measure other things. |
| Indonesian | The Indonesian word "menit" also means "thought, contemplation, or intention". |
| Irish | The Old Irish cognate of "nóiméad" meant "instant; a tiny measure of time, such as the time in which a wink takes place". |
| Italian | The word "minuto" in Italian can also refer to a musical note, an old unit of liquid measure, or a small detail. |
| Japanese | The kanji for 分 (minute) also means "divide" and "understand". |
| Javanese | The Javanese word "menit" is derived from the Dutch word "minuut" and also means "small, little". |
| Kannada | The word 'ನಿಮಿಷ' in Kannada also means 'a wink' or 'a moment' in addition to its meaning as a unit of time. |
| Kazakh | The word "минут" in Kazakh also means "instant". |
| Khmer | The word "នាទី" (minute) in Khmer also means "second" in a time context. |
| Korean | "분" is the native Korean word for "minute", and also means "powder" or "flour" in modern Korean. |
| Kurdish | In Kurdish, the term “deqqe” not only signifies “minute” but also refers to a unit of land measurement, an amount of money, or a small fraction. |
| Kyrgyz | The word "мүнөт" in Kyrgyz can also refer to a short period of time or a moment. |
| Lao | The word "ນາທີ" ("minute") in Lao can also refer to a small unit of time, approximately 60 seconds. |
| Latin | The Latin word "minutum" also means "small" or "trifling" and is the root of the word "minimum". |
| Latvian | "Minūti" is derived from the Latin word "minutus", meaning "small" or "tiny". |
| Lithuanian | Minute in Lithuanian is also used as a currency and a measure of alcohol content |
| Luxembourgish | The word "Minutt" can also refer to a small, unimportant person. |
| Macedonian | "Минута" can also mean "a moment" or "a short period of time" in Macedonian. |
| Malagasy | The Malagasy word 'minitra' is derived from the French word 'minute' and also means 'documentary'. |
| Malay | The Malay word "minit" also has the alternate meaning of "minutes" as in notes of a meeting. |
| Malayalam | The word 'minute' in Malayalam can also mean 'moment' or 'instance', and is derived from the Sanskrit word 'nimish', meaning 'a twinkling of the eye'. |
| Maltese | In Maltese, "minuta" has alternate meanings including "summary" and "rough draft" in addition to its meaning of "minute". |
| Maori | Meneti may also refer to 'minute' as in 'small and unimportant' |
| Marathi | In Marathi, 'मिनिट' also means 'small' or 'tiny'. |
| Mongolian | "Минут" is cognate to "миг" and "момент", and means both "a moment" and "a minute". |
| Myanmar (Burmese) | Myanmar's မိနစ် (minit) derives from the Pali term "minuta" meaning a brief or concise remark. |
| Nepali | The word "मिनेट" can also refer to a small quantity or amount. |
| Norwegian | Minutt can also mean "notice" or "notice board" in Norwegian. |
| Nyanja (Chichewa) | The word "miniti" can also refer to a small amount or quantity. |
| Pashto | The Pashto word "دقیقه" can also refer to a small quantity or portion. |
| Persian | The Persian word “دقیقه” can also mean "a small amount" or "a short period of time", similar to its English cognate. |
| Polish | "Minuta" also means "draft" or "sketch" |
| Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) | In Portuguese, "minuto" also means "very small" or "insignificant" |
| Punjabi | The word "ਮਿੰਟ" (minute) in Punjabi also refers to a small coin with a value of one-fourth of an anna. |
| Romanian | The Romanian word "minut" also means "fine, delicate". |
| Russian | In Russian, "минута" not only means "a minute" but also "a moment", and is cognate with the adjective "минувший", meaning "past, bygone". |
| Samoan | The word "minute" in Samoan comes from the same root as "minnie" in English, both meaning "small". |
| Scots Gaelic | The word "mionaid" can also refer to a "moment" or a "second". |
| Serbian | "Минуту" in Serbian can also mean "a moment" or "an instant." |
| Sesotho | The word "motsotso" originally meant "the time it takes to milk a cow". |
| Shona | The word "Mineti" in Shona can mean both "minute" and "a short period of time". |
| Sindhi | The Sindhi word "منٽ" is cognate with the English word "minute" and also means "small" or "tiny". |
| Sinhala (Sinhalese) | The word "විනාඩිය" can also refer to a small unit of time, typically one-sixtieth of a second. |
| Slovak | The word "minútu" in Slovak can also refer to an amount of time equal to 60 seconds, as in "za minútu" (in a minute). |
| Slovenian | The Slovenian word "minuta" also has the meaning of "draft", derived from the Latin word "minutae", meaning "small parts". |
| Somali | The word "daqiiqad" (minute) is also used to mean "a moment" or "a very short time" in Somali. |
| Spanish | The word "minuto" in Spanish comes from the Latin word "minutus", meaning "small" or "short", and is related to the word "minutes" in English, which refers to the 60th part of an hour. |
| Sundanese | The Sundanese word "menit" can also mean "time" or "moment". |
| Swahili | The Swahili word "dakika" also means "a very short time" or "a moment". |
| Swedish | The Swedish word 'minut' can also refer to a small piece of paper or a brief note. |
| Tagalog (Filipino) | In Filipino, "minuto" also refers to the smallest Filipino coin (equivalent to ₱0.01). |
| Tajik | The word "дақиқа" comes from the Arabic word "دقيقة" which originally meant "very small". |
| Tamil | In Tamil, "நிமிடம்" also means a specific time of day or event, such as sunrise or dusk. |
| Telugu | The word "నిమిషం" is derived from the Sanskrit word "निमेष" (nimesha), which means "a wink of the eye" or "a moment". In Telugu, it is commonly used as a measure of time, equivalent to 60 seconds. |
| Thai | The Thai word "นาที" (minute) can also mean "moment" or "while". |
| Turkish | The word "dakika" in Turkish is derived from the Arabic word "daqīqa", meaning "a very small amount" or "a moment", and also refers to a unit of angular measurement. |
| Ukrainian | The Ukrainian word "хвилини" originates from the Old East Slavic word "хвилити", meaning "to delay" or "to wait." |
| Urdu | The word 'منٹ' is derived from the Arabic word 'دقيقة', which means 'a short period of time'. |
| Uzbek | The Uzbek word "daqiqa" is derived from the Arabic word "daqīqa", which means "atom" or "fine particle". |
| Vietnamese | The word "phút" is derived from the French word "minute", and also means "instant" or "moment" in Vietnamese. |
| Welsh | The word "munud" is the shortened form of "munud o amser" which means "a portion of time". |
| Xhosa | In Sesotho, the word 'mzuzu' is also used as a term of endearment for children. |
| Yiddish | In Yiddish, "מינוט" can also refer to a moment, instance, or small amount of time. |
| Yoruba | The word "iseju" in Yoruba is also used to describe something that is "very small" or "insignificant." |
| Zulu | Umzuzu also means "a particle of time, a moment" in Zulu. |
| English | The word 'minute' comes from the Latin word 'minutus', meaning 'small' or 'tiny'. |